List of placental mammals

The class Mammalia (mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: monotremes, which lay eggs, and therians, mammals which give live birth, which has two infraclasses: marsupials (pouched mammals) and placental mammals. See List of monotremes and marsupials, and for the clades and families, see Mammal classification. Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference using the Planet' Mammifères website.[1]

Magnorder Atlantogenata

Order Tubulidentata (aardvarks)
Order Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)
Order Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles)
Order Hyracoidea (hyraxes)
Order Proboscidea (elephants)
Order Sirenia (dugongs and manatees)

Order Cingulata (armadillos)

Order Pilosa

10 extant species in 4 families, all in the Americas, comprising anteaters and sloths.

Suborder Vermilingua (anteaters)
Suborder Folivora (sloths)

Magnorder Boreoeutheria

Order Scandentia (treeshrews)

There are 20 species placed in five genera; all are from Southeast Asia.

Order Dermoptera (colugos)
Order Primates
Order Rodentia
Order Lagomorpha

Order Eulipotyphla

Order Chiroptera (bats)
Order Pholidota (pangolins)
Order Cetacea
Order Carnivora
Order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates)

Known as odd-toed ungulates, their rear hooves consist of an odd number of toes.

Suborder Hippomorpha
Suborder Ceratomorpha
Order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)

See also

References

  1. Boudet Ch. "Planet' Mammiferes". Planet' Mammiferes. 4.1 of 2013/12/23. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  2. Smit, H.A.; Robinson, T.J.; Watson, J.; Jansen Van Vuuren, B. (October 2008). "A new species of elephant-shrew (Afrotheria: Macroselidea: Elephantulus) from South Africa". Journal of Mammalogy. 89 (5): 1257–1269. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-254.1.
  3. "Shrew's who: New mammal enters the book of life". AFP. January 30, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-04. Retrieved August 4, 2015 via Google News.
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